An opportunity of becoming a classic missed

Rating: 3/10 (30 March 2015)

I only watched this movie because of Guillermo Del Toro, hoping for a new Starship Troopers, but sadly, where Verhoeven succeeded brilliantly Del Toro failed miserably. I was hoping for a great spoof on the Godzilla-geek culture. A movie to make fun of said movies, the pathetic/flatulent nationalistic-army-kitsch and of Hollywood altogether behind a mask of a sci-fi action movie. Sometimes, for a few seconds (e.g. the black-market) I had hope, but it was lost to end up in a deluge of clichés and cinematic commonplaces.
Verhoeven put the viewer in the skin of a fascist and he made them want to be one. In a fascist society you take the part of the fascist or the bugs. And given that no human can identify themselves with insects, you had to a be fascist. There were many-many details that were great, that had some deeper meaning, but I won't go deeper here, because this is a review about Pacific Rim. The actors were weak, but again in Starship Troopers, there were only one actor in leading role, Michael Ironside. The others were only bioscenery (Denise Richards, Casper Van Dien). Here we had Idris Elba, the others were only models, part of the decoration. (Yes, Ron Perlman and Santiago Segura, but they were not in leading roles).
So I was waiting for something that just did not come. The visuals were stunning, but boring: you see these monster/robots in every game/movie/tutorial, etc. A lot of work for nothing.
It is amazing how a bland and bloodless movie like Pacific Rim can attain a score above 3, but now it is on 7. No hope for humanity, let them kaijus come...